WTOP’s Space Guy Greg Redfern explains some of the significance behind the Soviet satellite that started the Space Age, details a great way to put your name in space and reveals when you can see one of the sky’s most gorgeous sights.

Fall officially arrives Thursday morning, and that means the nights are growing longer and cooler. Those longer nights allow the region to better enjoy the skies, and Venus is only one of the astronomical delights.

As I write this, I, along with a lot of professional and amateur astronomers worldwide, are waiting for their respective skies to align with ‘Spooky’ – a Halloween inspired nickname for a newly discovered solar…

WASHINGTON — Last week, we were captivated by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flyby of the dwarf planet Pluto and its complex system of moons. Finally, the last of the nine classic planets had been explored, and…

WASHINGTON — Tuesday, June 30, 2015 is the first “Asteroid Day.” Asteroid Day is a “global awareness movement where people from around the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do…

WASHINGTON — On Valentine’s Day, at 7:41 a.m. EST, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully maneuvered its Rosetta spacecraft to a six kilometer close flyby of the periodic Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The spacecraft passed over the larger lobe…